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Albany Law Review articles from December 1997
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Albany Law Review archives from December 1997
The fate of childhood: legal models of children and the parent-child relationship.
December 22, 1997... Introduction
In contemporary American culture the traditional nuclear family, forged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, has been eroding, but a deep nostalgia for the enduring, solidary bonds that seem once to have...
The power to award sanctions: does it belong in the hands of magistrate judges?
December 22, 1997... I. Introduction
Since the enactment of the Federal Magistrates Act (Act)(1) in 1968, United States magistrate judges have assumed many of the duties and responsibilities of district judges.(2) Magistrate judges are often called upon,...
The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism.
December 22, 1997... [W]hen I most want to be contemporary the Past keeps pushing in, and when I long for the Past... the Present cannot be pushed away.
I. The Stranger at the Party
In the recent book A Matter of Interpretation,(2) Justice Antonin...
The myth of misogyny: a reanalysis of women's inheritance in Islamic law.
December 22, 1997... In the Name of Allah (God),
Most Gracious, Most Merciful
O mankind! reverence
Your Guardian-Lord,
Who created you
From a single Person,
Created, of like nature,
His mate, and from them twain
...
Habeas leaps from the pan and into the fire: Jacobs v. Scott and the Antiterrorism and Effective Penalty Act of 1996.-
December 22, 1997... The recent development of reliable scientific evidentiary
methods has made it possible to establish conclusively that a
disturbing number of persons who had been sentenced to
death were actually innocent.1
I....
Does the SEQRA authorize mitigation fees? (New York State Environmental Quality Review Act)
December 22, 1997... I. Introduction
The inadequacy of state and federal funds to meet developing infrastructure needs has left local governments searching for ways to accommodate new growth without raising taxes.(1) Recognizing that new development...
A call for Price Waterhouse II: the legacy of Justice O'Connor's direct evidence requirement for mixed-motive employment discrimination claims.
December 22, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION
In 1989 the United States Supreme Court decided Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins,(1) a mixed-motive employment discrimination case(2) establishing the requirement that a plaintiff must produce direct evidence of...